JOKE LEADS TO ENLISTMENT
Failure to resist the temptation to splash muddy water on a nattily uniformed army captain resulted in Salvatore Aurisano, aged 19, being Kings County Judge Louis Goldstein's fifty-third candidate this year for enlistment in the Army, states the "New York Times." Racing along in a stolen automobile, Aurisano saw an army captain standing near a large puddle of water. The temptation was too great and a few seconds later Aurisano was driving away laughing and the officer was drenched with muck from the car wheels. . The officer was quick to act. He got into his own car and gave chase, enlisting the ,• aid of a State trooper on the way. Overtaken, Aurisano admitted stealing the car in Brooklyn and pleaded guilty to petty larceny. The Judge suspended execution of a penitentiary sentence with the provision that Aurisano enlist in the army. The Judge remarked that this was the fifty-third man he had persuaded to enlist this year and that he had received letters from many of them saying they were, very happy.
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Evening Post, Volume CXXXV, Issue 1, 2 January 1943, Page 3
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176JOKE LEADS TO ENLISTMENT Evening Post, Volume CXXXV, Issue 1, 2 January 1943, Page 3
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